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That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
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When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle
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No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.
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[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation on some level, the president is always on vacation.
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
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Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.
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A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.
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[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
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…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
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You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.
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Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
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The hardest thing about writing is writing.
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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
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No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
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I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.
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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
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Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
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I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.
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American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
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